Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Bard Abides

Initially perceived via BuzzFeed. Here's the prologue:
Prologue

[Enter CHORUS]

CHORUS
In wayfarer’s worlds out west was once a man,
A man I come not to bury, but to praise.
His name was Geoffrey Lebowski called, yet
Not called, excepting by his kin.
That which we call a knave by any other name
Might bowl just as sweet. Lebowski, then,
Did call himself ‘the Knave’, a name that I,
Your humble chorus, would not self-apply
In homelands mine; but, then, this Knave was one
From whom sense was a burden to extract,
And of the arid vale in which he dwelt,
Also dislike in sensibility;
Mayhap the very search for sense reveals
The reason that it striketh me as most
Int’resting, yea, inspiring me to odes.
(In couplets first, and then a sonnet brave
As prologue to the tale of this the Knave.
Behold him, then, a-tumbling softly down
To pledge his love immortal to the ground.)
We stray now from fair Albion and from France
And see no Queen of bawdy songs and cheers
And in an angel's city take our chance
For stupefying tales to take our ears.
To war on Arab kings acoast we go,
Needing a man of times, though hero not;
Hear me call him not hero; what’s in a hero?
Sometimes there’s a man, your prologue’s thought.
The Knave, though scarcely man of honour’d grace,
Nor hero Olympian, nor yet employ’d,
Was nonetheless for all his time and place,
The man befits the circle he’s enjoy’d.
A man of lazy ways, of epic sloth;
But, losing train of thought, I’ve spake enough!

[He exits.]
Read the whole play. They did the images above, too.

13 comments:

highnumber said...

I skimmed the play. It's outstanding. I can't wait to read the whole thing. Love to see it produced.

Pro Libertate said...

With Jeff Bridges.

Naga Sadow said...

Someone actually asked me for a "Caucasian" once. I drew a total blank. The girl told me it was a white russian. "Oh! Lebowski! How could I forget!". The girl told me I was the first bartender to ever know where the drink name originated.

True story.

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